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Science and religion [videorecording] / by Principe, Lawrence,instructor.; Blandford, James,producer.; Leven, Jon.; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Disc 1: Lecture 1. Science and religion -- Lecture 2. The warfare thesis -- Lecture 3. Faith and reason: Scripture and nature -- Lecture 4. God and nature: Miracles and demons -- Lecture 5. Church, Copernicus, and Galileo -- Lecture 6. Galileo's trial.Disc 2: Lecture 7. God the watchmaker -- Lecture 8. Natural theology and arguments from design -- Lecture 9. Geology, cosmology, and Biblical chronology -- Lecture 10. Darwin and responses to evolution -- Lecture 11. Fundamentalism and creationism -- Lecture 12. Past, present, and future.Producer, James Blandford ; director, Jon Leven.Twelve lectures of thirty minutes each by Professor Lawrence M. Principe, Professor of the History of Science and Technology, and of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University.Twelve 30-minute lectures by Professor Lawrence M. Principe on the relation between science and religion from early times to the present.DVD.
Subjects: Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.; Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.; Religion and science.; Faith and reason.; Creationism.; Evolution (Biology); Intelligent design (Teleology); Science; Science; Nature; Religion and science; Evolution; Evolution (Biology);
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Classical archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome [videorecording] / by Hale, John R.,1951-teacher.(CARDINAL)495518; Blandford, James,film producer.(CARDINAL)849607; Leven, Jon,film director.(CARDINAL)554917; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Includes bibliographical references (course guidebook, part 3).Disc 1. Archaeology's big bang --"Ode on a Grecian Urn" -- A quest for the Trojan War -- How to dig -- First find your site -- Taking the search underwater ; Disc 2. Cracking the codes -- Techniques for successful dating -- Reconstructing vanished environments -- "Not artifacts but people" -- Archaeology by experiment -- Return to Vesuvius.Disc 3. Gournia : Harriet Boyd, and the Mother Goddess -- Thera : a Bronze Age Atlantis? -- Olympia : games and gods -- Athens' agora : where Socrates walked -- Delphi : questioning the oracle -- Kyrenia : lost ship of the Hellenistic Age ; Disc 4. Riace : warriors from the Sea -- Rome : foundation myths and archaeology -- Caesarea Maritima : a Roman city in Judea -- Teutoburg : battlefield archaeology -- Bath : healing waters at Aquae Sulis -- Torre de Palma : a farm in the far West.Disc 5. Roots of classical culture -- The texture of everyday life -- Their daily bread -- Voyaging on a dark sea of wine -- Shows and circuses : Rome's "virtual reality" -- Engineering and technology ; Disc 6. Slaves : a silent majority? -- Women of Greece and Rome -- Hadrian : mark of the individual -- Crucible of new faiths -- The end of the world : a coroner's report -- A bridge across the torrent.Producer, James Blandford ; director, Jon Leven.Lecturer: John R. Hale, University of Louisville.Classical archaeology, the excavation and analysis of ancient Greek and Roman sites, has been one of the leading branches of archaeology, pioneering its basic methods and major innovations. In these 36 half-hour lectures, Dr. John R. Hale of the University of Louisville guides the listener through 18th-century excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii, tours many important archaeological sites or discoveries, from the Bronze Age to late antiquity, and takes a thematic approach in exploring what archaeology has contributed to knowledge of ancient diet, entertainment, engineering, slavery, religion, the role of women, and other topics.DVD.
Subjects: Filmed lectures.; Educational films.; Nonfiction films.; Classical antiquities.; Archaeology; Archaeology; Speeches, addresses, etc.;
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Great ancient civilizations of Asia Minor [videorecording] / by Harl, Kenneth W.(CARDINAL)749064; Harl, Kenneth W.,speaker.(CARDINAL)749064; Blandford, James,film producer.(CARDINAL)849607; Dunton, Tom,film director.(CARDINAL)553096; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Editor, Sal Rodriguez.Lecturer: Kenneth W. Harl, Tulane University.Twenty-four lectures on the history of Asia Minor, from its origins as a civilization in Anatolia to the Ottoman Empire.DVD, region 1.
Subjects: Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Educational films.; Instructional films.; Video recordings.; Civilization, Ancient.;
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Exploring the roots of religion [videorecording] / by Hale, John R.,1951-(CARDINAL)495518; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Part 1. Lecture 1. The roots of religious experience -- Lecture 2. Neanderthal burials at Shanidar -- Lecture 3. Hunting magic in sacred caves -- Lecture 4. Myths of the shaman -- Lecture 5. Realm of the Mother Goddess -- Lecture 6. Mysteries of the megaliths -- Lecture 7. Towers and tombs of Sumeria -- Lecture 8. Tomb of the first emperor of China -- Lecture 9. Feasting with the dead at Petra -- Lecture 10. Druid sacrifice at Lindow Moss? -- Lecture 11. Honoring ancestors in ancient Ohio -- Lecture 12. A Viking queen sails to eternity.Part 2. Lecture 13. Dancing with bulls at Knossos -- Lecture 14. Oracle bones in ancient China -- Lecture 15. Sun and sexuality in early Scandinavia -- Lecture 16. Apollo speaks at Klaros -- Lecture 17. Chalice of blood in ancient Peru -- Lecture 18. Decoding rituals at Palenque -- Lecture 19. Temple of the Goddess on Malta -- Lecture 20. The Aten-- monotheism in Egypt -- Lecture 21. Deities of the Acropolis -- Lecture 22. Gods and pyramids at Teotihuacan -- Lecture 23. Sacred city on the Mississippi -- Lecture 24. Sun and shadow at Machu PIcchu.Part 3. Lecture 25. Celestial gateway at Giza -- Lecture 26. Cosmic hub at Stonehenge -- Lecture 27. Desert lines at Nazca -- Lecture 28. Skywatchers at Chaco Canyon -- Lecture 29. Mountain of the Gods at Angkor -- Lecture 30. The stone heads of Easter Island -- Lecture 31. Tending Zoroaster's sacred fire in Iran -- Lecture 32. Writing the Dead Sea scrolls at Qumran -- Lecture 33. Taking religions underground at Rome -- Lecture 34. Forging iron at Jenne-jeno on the Niger -- Lecture 35. Carving monasteries at Ajanta in India -- Lecture 36. Faiths lost and found.Producer, James Blandford ; editors, Rich Bernett, James Blandford.Lecturer, John R. Hale, University of Louisville.Professor Hale takes you deep inside caves and crypts and leads you through vast deserts and ancient cities around the globe for a comprehensive look at specific religious archaeological sites around the world.DVD, NTSC.
Subjects: Educational films.; Feature films.; Filmed lectures.; Instructional films.; Nonfiction films.; Archaeology and religion.; Excavations (Archaeology); Religion; Rites and ceremonies.; Ritual.;
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Understanding the world's greatest structures [videorecording] : science and innovation from antiquity to modernity / by Ressler, Stephen J.,teacher.; Leven, Jon,film director.(CARDINAL)554917; Scarbrough, Wendy,film director.; Blandford, James,film producer.(CARDINAL)849607; Guide (work):Ressler, Stephen J.Understanding the world's greatest structures : science and innovation from antiquity to modernity, course guidebook.©2011.; Teaching Company,production company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-202).Producer, James Blandford ; directors, Jon Leven, Wendy Scarbrough.Studio crew, Jim Allen and [five others] ; editor, Rich Bernett.Lecturer: Professor Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy at West Point."Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity -- a marvelous learning experience that takes you around the world and reveals the stories behind the most famous bridges, churches, skyscrapers, towers, and other structures from thousands of years of history. These 24 lectures take you on a fascinating and richly illustrated tour that deftly blends history and science to create an unforgettable survey of our world's most remarkable structural masterpieces, one informed by the fundamentals of structural engineering and their underlying scientific principles."--Publisher.DVD; full screen presentation.
Subjects: Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Educational films.; Instructional films.; Structural design.; Structural engineering.;
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Roots of human behavior [videorecording] / by King, Barbara J.,1956-(CARDINAL)344579; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Accompanying course guidebook includes a glossary, anthropoid sketches, and annotated bibliography.Producer, James Blandford ; director, Tom Dunton ; editor, Sal Rodriguez.Lecturer: Barbara J. King, The College of William and Mary.Professor King delivers twelve 30-min. lectures exploring the evolutionary links humans share with monkeys and apes, and explains the significance of those links in understanding human behavior.DVD, NTSC, region 1.
Subjects: Educational films.; Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings.; Anthropology.; Human behavior.; Human evolution.;
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The fall of the Pagans and the origins of Medieval Christianity [videorecording] / by Harl, Kenneth W.,teacher.(CARDINAL)749064; Teaching Company,publisher.(CARDINAL)349444;
Producer, James Blandford ; director, Jonathan Leven ; editors, Derek Knight, John McNeill, James Blandford.Kenneth W. Harl, lecturer.This course will explain the reasons for the clash between the pagans and the early Christians that ended in the Christianizing of the Roman.DVD.
Subjects: Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Educational films.; Church history; Paganism; Christianity and other religions;
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The story of human language [videorecording] / by McWhorter, John H.(CARDINAL)342022; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Producer, James Blandford ; director, Jon Leven ; academic content supervisor, Pam Greer ; camera, Tom Dooley, Jim Allen, Amanda Carter.Thirty-six lectures of thirty minutes each by lecturer Professor John McWhorter, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.Language is fascinating. It defines humans as a species, placing us head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. Professor McWhorter explores many of the common questions about language, such as: Why isn't there just a single language? Or, How does a language change, and when it does, is that change indicative of decay or growth? In short, everything about a language is eternally and inherently changeable, from its word order and grammar to the very sound and meaning of basic words, while word histories reveal the phenomena of language change and mixture worldwide.DVD.
Subjects: Educational films.; Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings.; Creole dialects.; Dialectology.; Historical linguistics.; Language and languages; Languages, Artificial.; Linguistic analysis (Linguistics); Linguistics.; Linguistics; Linguistics; Pidgin languages.; Psycholinguistics.; Sociolinguistics.;
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The history of ancient Egypt [videorecording] by Blandford, James.(CARDINAL)849607; Brier, Bob.(CARDINAL)152501; Burnham, Phil.; Moyer, David.; Rodriguez, Sal.(CARDINAL)692189; Stonebarger, Tamara.(CARDINAL)432038; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Producer, Tamara Stonebarger ; director, James Blandford ; editor, Sal Rodriguez ; content editors, Phil Burnham, David Moyer.Forty-eight lectures of thirty minutes each by Bob Brier, Egyptologist and Professor of Philosophy at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.Ancient Egyptian civilization is so grand that our minds sometimes have difficulty adjusting to it. The most advanced of any ancient civilization, Egypt's ancient kingdom lasted for 30 centuries, longer than any other, yet today, it remains one of the most mysterious. Home of the only one of the Eight Wonders of the Ancient World still standing, the Great Pyramid of Cheops was the tallest building in the world until well into the 1800s. This course chronologically surveys 3,000 years of recorded Egyptian history, from unification in 3100 BC through the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC.DVD.
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Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon [videorecording] / by Desan, Suzanne,1957-teacher,author.(CARDINAL)856815; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-373) in course guidebook.Supervising producer, Tony Hidenrick ; senior producer, James Blandford ; managing writer, Nancy Eskridge ; producer, Ines I. Perez-Thompson ; directors, Jonathan D. Leven, Jim M. Allen ; editors, Ines I. Perez-Thompson, Wesley Konick.Lecturer: Professor Suzanne M. Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison.A lecture series on the French Revolution. The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after Napoleon in 1814 is an astonishing period in world history. This era shook the foundations of the old world and marked a permanent shift for politics, religion, and society ; not just for France, but for all of Europe.DVD.Title from disc surface.
Subjects: Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Educational films.; Video recordings.; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.; World politics;
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